Pygmalion (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE sculptor paused before his finished work, -A wondrous statue of divinest mould.Like Cytherea's were the rounded limbs,The hands, in ...
Grace Greenwood Poems on Life (30 Poems)
Voices From The Old World: The Famine Of 1847 (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A voice from out the Highlands,Old Scotia's mountain homes!From wild burn-side, and darksome glen,And towering steep, it comes!Is it the ...
The Midnight Vigil (Grace Greenwood Poems)
BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER.THEY say a tempest is abroad to-night;They tell me of its fearful sights and sounds, ...
Proem (Grace Greenwood Poems)
SOME poet dreams come to the soulIn mystic beauty clad,Unearthly in their loveliness,So exquisitely sad.Shadowy and dim and cloud-like thingsFloating ...
Spirit Longings (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LOOK upon 1ife's glorious things,The deathless themes of song,The grand, the proud, the beautiful,The wild, the free, the strong,And ...
To- In Absence (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
A Fragment (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THOU darest not love me! - thou canst only seeThe great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,'T would bear ...
Darkened Hours (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WITH folded arms and drooping headI stand, my heart's blest goal unwon,My soul's high purpose unattained;But life, but life goes ...
Wanted – A Theme (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
The Horseback Ride (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN troubled in spirit, when weary of life,When I faint 'neath its burdens, and shrink from its strife,When its fruits, ...
L’Envoi (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I KNOW these lays will come to theeLike flowers along thy pathway strown,And wear, to thy young, generous eyes,A grace ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
Hervey To Nina – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DIVIDED in our lives, and yet twin-hearted!Our sad first parents shared a happier fate;When, from Love's Eden, dearest, we departed,'T ...
I Never Will Grow Old (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O, NO, I never will grow old;Though years on years roll by,And silver o'er my dark brown hair,And dim my ...
Emilie Plater (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
The Story Of A Life (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE world smiled on me at my birth, -Beneath a rose-hued sky,Rocked on the summer waves of love,My childhood glided ...
Constance (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE tropic stars are looking downUpon the midnight deep;The wind blows fresh, as on our courseRight gallantly we sweep;For thee ...
Siri, The Swimmer – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN evening with its breezy airSucceeds the sultry day,Let others wear, in crowds and glare,The tranquil hours away;But be it ...
The Last Gift (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LEAVE thee, love! In vain hast thouThe God of life implored;My clinging soul is torn from thine,My faithful, my ...
Invocation To Mother Earth (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 EARTH! thy face hath not the graceThat smiling Heaven did bless,When thou wert "good," and blushing stoodIn thy young ...
The Restored (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Our Father, when our loved one layWith her languid eyes half closed,When the darkening shadow of the graveOn her sunny ...
The First Doubt (Grace Greenwood Poems)
My heart is chilled with sudden fear,And heavy on my spirit liesThe doubt that breathed from thy harsh tones,And looked ...
To One Afar (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O'STRONG and pure of soul! - O earnest-hearted!Like stranger-pilgrims at some way-side shrineHave we two met, and mingled faith, and ...
Love-Letter To A Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DEAR Anna, hast ne'er heard it toldHow florists have the curious powerTo graft on some rude garden-plantA tender and exquisite ...
Therese (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A ROSE once pressed against thy lips,Then gayly flung to me,Is all the gift I treasure upIn memory of thee;It ...
Valentine To Mr. Inman (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Moore tells us, in his dulcet lays,A damsel, in the good old days,Fell most imprudently in loveWith some stray seraph ...
Song III (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WE must silence, with words of cold reason,The eloquent voice of the heart;For Love hath stayed out his brief season,And ...
Valentine To- (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WE never met; yet to my soulThy name hath been a voice of singing,And ever to thy glorious laysThe echoes ...
To Miss A. C. L – (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY life is like a fountain clear, upspringingBeside the weary way I'm treading now;I love to linger near, and feel ...
To The Wife Of A Poet (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O FAITHFUL friend! O gentle wife!I know I may not add to-dayOne drop unto thy" wine of life,"Of love, or ...